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Detective novelist (1888–1959) best known for The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. His seven novels center around tough but honest private investigator

Ballpoint signature, “Agatha Christie,” on an off-white 5.25 x 3.5 card, with a clipped photo affixed to top left. In fine condition, with a bit of tr

Signed book: Red Rabbit. Limited first edition of 550 copies (this copy No. 499). NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2002. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.25 x 9.25.

Fantastic ink signature, “Mark Twain,” on a white 3 x 1.5 card. In fine condition, with light toning and mounting remnants on reverse.

ALS signed “S. L. Clemens,” two pages, 4.5 x 7, November 30, 1894. Letter to General [Lloyd S.] Bryce. In full: “I am located here for the winter–with

Commanding 3.5 x 5.5 German postcard photo, signed in ink, “Very truly yours, Mark Twain, 1905.” In good condition, with light toning, scattered soili

ALS signed “S. L. Clemens, Mark Twain,” two pages, 4.5 x 7, personal letterhead, Hartford, April 13, 1877. Letter to Miss Holmes. In full: “It gives m

ALS in French, signed “A big kiss, Jean Cocteau,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, December 31, 1953. Letter to John Schmitz regarding a film. In part (translat

AQS, signed “Mark Twain,” on a 4.5 x 2 off-white slip, dated February 20, 1908. Clemens writes, “Let us save the to-morrows for work. Truly yours, Mar

Original blue ink drawing of Orpheus with his lyre on an original 14 x 21 rigid poster for a 1950 exhibition at CDMI in Paris honoring Le Groupe des S

Signed book: Present Indicative. Limited edition of 301 copies (this copy No. 173). NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937. Hardcover with slipcase, 6

Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Coward bringing a cigarette to his lips, signed and inscribed in-person in blue felt tip “To Saul from Noel Coward.” Reverse of

Printed ‘thank-you’ note on an off-white 4.5 x 3.5 card bearing the sentiment, “Mr. Noel Coward thanks you very much for your charming letter and is m

Signed book: Color. Later printing. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1926. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.75, 108 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free-end p...

French novelist (1840–1897). Brief untranslated ALS in French signed in purple ink “A. D.,” on a personal calling card, 4 x 2.5. In very good conditio

American journalist and author (1873–1945). ALS signed “Bio de Casseres, Benjamin de Casseres, Christmas 1931, New York City,” one page, 5 x 6. de Cas

Brief third-person ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, on black-bordered Gad’s Hill Place letterhead, January 12, 1864. Dickens responds to an applicant, in full:

Irish American author associated with the Kitchen Sink artists and the Angry Young Men. Donleavy is best known for his critically acclaimed first nove

French artist (1884–1974). ALS in French, signed “A. D. de Segonzac,” on a self-contained 4.5 x 5.5 air mail envelope, no date. Short letter to the or

Russian-born French artist and designer (1892–1990) who was one of the leading figures of the Art Deco movement. Vibrant gouache painting of a theatri

Nostalgic holiday Greetings from Robert Frost card, December 1949, 5 x 3, featuring the poem, ‘On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To Hear Us Talk),’ si

Signed book: In the Clearing. First edition. NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1962. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 101 pages. Signed and insc

Lawyer-turned-writer (1889–1970) best known as the creator of fictional defense attorney Perry Mason. TLS, two pages, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead

Vintage matte-finish 6.75 x 5 photo of Gardner at his desk in his hunting lodge, signed in fountain pen. In very good to fine condition, with moderate

Signed book: Howl and Other Poems. Later printing. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1983. Softcover, 5 x 6.25, 48 pages. Signed on the title page, “A

Eclectic archive of nine items signed “Allen” or “Allen Ginsberg,” including an envelope, a souvenir transcript, a postcard, a handwritten poem, three

Fantastic limited edition 12 x 18 poster entitled ‘Thoughtful Alphabet No. 14,’ numbered #20/100, signed in black ink, “Edward Gorey.” Rolled and in f

Bank check, 6.25 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Grey, payable to Mrs. L. D. Mitchell for $300.00, January 10, 1928. Cancellation holes to body, small

Exceptional handwritten, unsigned pencil manuscript page from Grey’s novel, Blue Feather, on a lightly-lined beige 8 x 12.5 sheet, bearing a blind-sta

American novelist, screenwriter, and historian (1901–1991). Guthrie was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for the novel, The Way West. TQS on a beige

German painter and printmaker (1883–1970). TLS in German, one page, 8 x 5.75, August 17, 1948. Untranslated letter to Dr. Schmidt. In fine condition,

Signed book: Hirschfeld by Hirschfeld. First edition, first printing. NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1979. Hardcover with dustjacket, 8.5 x 11.25, 22...

TLS signed “Hirschfeld,” one page, 8.5 x 11, March 17, 1966. Hirschfeld writes, in full: “John P. Sullivan has purchased a drawing of mine of Mae West

Two FDCs, each featuring a color silk cachet honoring the Americana series, and each signed in black ink, “Hirschfeld.” In fine condition.

AQS on an off-white 8.5 x 5 sheet. Holmes pens a stanza from ‘The Chambered Nautilus.’ In full: “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the

ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, 296 Beacon Street letterhead, October 16, 1892. In a letter to A. O. Kaplan, author of the poem, ‘The Magic Laugh,’ Holmes wri

Eminent American writer (1809–1894) best known for his collection The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, and the much-anthologized poem ‘The Chambered N

English man of letters (1788–1841). Original signed ink sketch of a man in profile on an off-white 4.5 x 7.5 sheet signed in the bottom left corner “B

Author, suffragette, dramatist, poet, and biographer (1819–1910), best remembered as the lyricist of ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic.’ ALS, two pages, 3.

Author, suffragette, dramatist, poet, and biographer (1819–1910), best remembered as the lyricist of ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic.’ Eerie 6 x 8 image

American author and screenwriter (1926–2005), who wrote under a handful of pen names, including Ed McBain, Richard Marsten, Hunt Collins, and Curt Can

Influential British writer (1894–1963) best known for the twentieth-century classics Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. Fascinating collecti

Four items: An AQS, signed “Albert Perceval Graves,” on an off-white 4.5 x 3 card. Graves pens 12 bars from his famous ballad Father O’Flynn, signed a

Signed book: 11/22/63. First edition. NY: Scribner, 2011. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6.5 x 9.5. Signed on the title page in blue ink, “Stephen King.”

Signed book: Under the Dome. First edition, first printing. NY: Scribner, 2009. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 1074 pages. Signed on the title

Huge limited edition hand-painted animation cel entitled ‘Screwballs,’ #44/200, 39 x 12, featuring Woody Woodpecker and 19 other Walter Lantz characte

French artist (1881–1955) best known for his brightly colored, cubist- and machine-age–influenced abstractions. Ballpoint signature and French sentime

English painter and sculptor (1830-1896). ALS, two pages, 4.5 x 7, April 3, 1889. Leighton writes, in full: “I have to acknowledge your letter of the

French sculptor and painter (1885–1962). Vintage ink signature and French sentiment on an off-white 5.75 x 4.5 album page. In fine condition, with a b

ALS signed “S. L.,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, September 25. Lewis writes to Father Edward J. Murphy, in full: “It looks a